Ian_Lee Posted October 19, 2004 at 08:24 PM Report Posted October 19, 2004 at 08:24 PM In English, English is English. The most you can differentiate it is by labelling it as Oxford English or American English. But it is still English. However, Chinese language can be called either as 汉语, 中文 or 華語. Just like the various Chinese terms for North Korea (discussed in another thread), the above terms carry different political implications respectively. Quote
benotnobody Posted October 20, 2004 at 08:55 AM Report Posted October 20, 2004 at 08:55 AM Referring specifically to Mandarin... 国语 （although it is different to "Beijing" Mandarin, if that makes sense, in some subtle ways，so I suppose it isn't really appropriate; different words or tones are sometimes used） 普通话 Quote
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